Straight Out of the Saul Alinsky’s Playbook

Saul David Alinsky was born in 1909. During the span of his 63 years on earth, Alinsky invested most of his time as a community organizer, socialist and writer. Saul Alinsky is best known for his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. Modern leaders such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have credited Alinsky for successfully running movements for change. Saul Alinsky’s book contains 13 rules to promote social change. Three of these rules are applied by the mainstream media daily.

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, Hebrews 5:11-12.

As I hear, read or see another conservative being attacked, criticized or slandered by Hollywood elites, liberals and progressives, you can make the connection that these troubling comments are coming straight out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook. For example, the fifth rule states that ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. If you watch modern comedy shows, jeering, mockery and scorn emulates this rule. Meanwhile, the eighth rule: Keep the pressure on serves as a mantra to chip away at the founding of America’s Judeo Christian values. Finally, political talking points are shared throughout cable news and print media outlets to fulfill rule thirteen: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

But the [Holy] Spirit explicitly and unmistakably declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, paying attention instead to deceitful and seductive spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 [misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning], 1 Timothy 4:1-2.

In the passage above, the apostle Paul refers to what the world will be like during the end times, prior to Jesus’ second coming. Perhaps, constant vulgar comments are merely a sign of individuals turning away from God. This void is being replaced by deceitful and seductive spirits causing once normal human beings to act like crazy people. If this trend continues, doctrines of demons will spread into all avenues of life, corrupting souls and poisoning minds. May these troubling times serve as a wake up call to test everything you hear, 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22. The more you study the word of God, your eyes will be opened to Satan’s attacks against faith.